Minnesota Historical Society Press
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The Lincoln del Cookbook
$24.95 Add to cartFor Jewish and non-Jewish customers alike, the Lincoln Del was a Minneapolis version of Cheers–at the Del everybody knew your name. Folks hardly minded waiting in line for the fresh caraway rye, the … [more below]
- Author: Rosenstein, Wendi Zelkin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1681340615
- Language: English
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The Bride Price: A Hmong Wedding Story
$18.95 Add to cartWhen Mai Neng Moua decides to get married, her mother, a widow, wants the groom to follow Hmong custom and pay a bride price, which both honors the work the bride’s family has done in raising a daught
- Author: Moua, Mai Neng
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1681340364
- Language: English
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Christmas in Minnesota: A Celebration in Memories, Stories, and Recipes of Seasons Past
$17.95 Add to cartLike the warmth of a cabin fireplace and the twinkle of lights along the edge of a frozen lake, Christmas in Minnesota evokes memories of holidays long ago.
Beloved Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz … [more below]- Author: Ziebarth, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1681341425
- Language: English
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The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property
$19.95 Add to cartHow making treaties for land cessions with Native American nations transformed human relationships to the land and became a profitable family business.
- Author: Case, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1681340909
- Language: English
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Murder in Minnesota: A Collection of True Cases
$19.95 Add to cartThis treasury of vintage crime offers a vivid picture of Minnesota from the time it achieved statehood in 1858 through 1917. It also traces the gradual changes in social attitudes from the days of fro… [more below]
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Trenerry, Walter N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 15 1962
- ISBN10: 0873511808
- Language: English
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Minnesota, 1918: When Flu, Fire, and War Ravaged the State
$18.95 Add to cartIn 1918, Minnesota and its residents were confronted with a series of devastating events that put communities to the test, forcing them to persevere through untold hardship. First, as the nation immer… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Curt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1681341476
- Language: English
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Untamed Mushrooms: From Field to Table
$29.95 Add to cartStep into nature, whether in a park, forest, prairie, or lakeland, and you are surrounded by edible wild foods-if you know where to look. Old traditions of foraging have seen a passionate resurgence o… [more below]
- Author: Karns, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1681340860
- Language: English
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A Dictionary of the Ojibway Language
$34.95 Add to cartThe language of the Ojibway people was recorded by Frederic Baraga (1797-1868), a missionary priest from Slovenia, who was sent in 1835 by the Catholic church to serve among the Ojibway living in the … [more below]
- Series: Borealis Books
- Author: Baraga, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: November 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0873512812
- Language: English
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The Good Path: Ojibwe Learning and Activity Book for Kids
$19.95 Add to cartKids of all cultures journey through time with the Ojibwe people as their guide to the Good Path and its universal lessons of courage, cooperation, and honor. Through traditional native tales, hear ab
- Author: Peacock, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0873517830
- Language: English
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Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe
$24.95 Add to cartThe Red Lake Nation has a unique and deeply important history. Unlike every other reservation in Minnesota, Red Lake holds its land in common–and, consequently, the tribe retains its entire reservati… [more below]
- Author: Treuer, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0873519639
- Language: English
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Tales from the Minnesota Sports Beat: A Lifetime on Deadline
$18.95 Add to cartMemories and stories from more than half a century of writing, reporting, and ranting by a Minnesota sports icon.
Minneapolis Star Tribune senior columnist Patrick Reusse is a legendary fixture in Min- Author: Reusse, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1681342308
- Language: English
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Colonel Hans Christian Heg and the Norwegian American Experience
$24.95 Add to cartThis first full-length biography of Colonel Heg examines the life of a Civil War hero while illuminating the experiences of Norwegian American immigrants who found both hardship and success in a new h… [more below]
- Author: Lovoll, Odd S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1681342502
- Language: English
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What We Hunger for: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family
$18.95 Add to cartEating is an intimacy bound with language, family, and migration. Travel far and near with fourteen gifted writers from immigrant and refugee families as they share their flavorful, luminous stories. … [more below]
- Author: Shin, Sun Yung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1681341972
- Language: English
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Tourney Time: Stories from the Minnesota Boys State Hockey Tournament
$29.95 Read moreEight decades of big names and memorable games–chronicling the highs and lows, the memories, and the legends from the Minnesota boys’ state high school tournament–fully revised and updated with all … [more below]
- Author: La Vaque, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 168134288X
- Language: English
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The Dakota War of 1862: Minnesota’s Other Civil War
$24.95 Add to cartThe Dakota War of 1862 draws on a wealth of written and visual materials by white and American Indian participants and observers showing both the sources of the Dakotas’ wrath and the terrible consequ… [more below]
- Author: Carley, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0873513924
- Language: English
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When Minnehaha Flowed with Whiskey: A Spirited History of the Falls
$18.95 Add to cartThe lost history of Minnehaha Falls–featuring dance halls, secret saloons, wild behavior, lawsuits, and plenty of whiskey.
Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis has been a much-loved place for a very long t
- Author: Cooper, Karen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 168134226X
- Language: English
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Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride
$18.95 Add to cartSince its beginnings in 1993, the Queer Voices reading series has featured both emerging and established Minnesota-based writers of the LGBTQIA+ community. With a track record of more than twenty… [more below]
- Author: Jenkins, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1681341220
- Language: English
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Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community
$19.95 Add to cartThis anthology of fiction, prose, and poetry celebrates the rich diversity of writing by Native American women today. Editors Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe have gathered stories from across the natio… [more below]
- Series: Native Voices
- Author: Erdrich, Heid E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0873514289
- Language: English
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The Essential Dear Dara: Writings on Local Characters and Memorable Places
$19.95 Add to cartA portrait of a place and its people through the writings and musings of one of the Twin Cities’ most beloved and prolific writers.
For 25 years, Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl has been a fixture of Twin Cit- Author: Grumdahl, Dara Moskowitz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1681342758
- Language: English
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Stand Up!: The Story of Minnesota’s Protest Tradition
$16.95 Add to cartA brief and readable overview of the political protest movements that have shaped Minnesota, a state of extremes.
- Author: Gilman, Rhoda R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0873518497
- Language: English
